Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grange"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grange \Grange\, n. [F. grange barn, LL. granea, from L. granum
grain. See {Grain} a kernel.]
1. A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.] --Milton.

2. A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for
farming purposes.

And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her
granges and her bernes wide. --Chaucer.

Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid.
--Tennyson.

3. A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes,
paid in grain, were deposited. [Obs.]

4. A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from
neighbors.

5. An association of farmers, designed to further their
interests, aud particularly to bring producers and
consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct
commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or
traders. The first grange was organized in 1867. [U. S.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

grange
n : an outlying farm


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